For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
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I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
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But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.
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